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Product
Owned end-to-end UX for discovery, reading, workspace organization, and drafting.
- Product
- Design System
- Full case study
- 2025
ResXiv
A unified research workspace enabling researchers to find, read, understand, organize, and write papers in one place.
Long story short
I co-founded an AI-native research workspace bootstrapped to 300 MAU and 350+ organic signups
On a two-person founding team, I led product strategy, UX, and frontend development—from a 97-researcher user study through MVP launch.
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Research
Led a 97-researcher study across interviews, surveys, and focus groups.
03
Engineering
Shipped the MVP frontend and design system, shortening design-to-code loops.
How might we help researchers discover, understand, and write papers without losing context?
Research ecosystem is flawed
Fragmented tools
Work happens across tabs and context gets lost.
Outdated writing software
No technical innovation since the 1980s in research drafting methods.
AI poisoning
AI skyrocketed research output, making relevant research harder to find.
Costly ecosystem
Researchers pay at every step, trapped in a costly loop.
User study
97 researchers
Interviews, surveys & focus groups
- No platform supports the entire research journey.
- Fragmented tools lead to fragmented research.
- No collaborative domain-specific research workspace.
User quotes
I spend weeks reading papers, but by the end, I lose track of how they connect. There's just too much to process and I struggle to see the bigger picture.
The hardest part is giving structure to research. Tools help me write, not think. What I need is a system that connects the dots for me.
Researchers are stuck with
Tools that do not support the iterative nature of research
Unreliable AI tools that lack proof-backed results
Tools that offer outdated research capabilities
Tools that fail to support collaborative work
The Problem
The Problem
No tool builds research intuition
Nothing that connects topics, ideas, and relationships.
Linear workflows kill collaboration
Existing research tools are not built for iterative research teamwork.
As a result
- Lost insights
- Stalled progress
- Inhibited intuition
- Information overload
- Closed research
Researchers don't need another AI summarizer. They need a system that preserves research context throughout the entire workflow.
Competitive landscape
Researchers juggle a dozen tools across discovery, reading, writing, and reference management. ResXiv consolidates that workflow into one workspace.
How ResXiv stands out
| Competitor | Sustains entire research cycle | No-code drafting | Proof-backed | Designed for academia |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ResXiv | ||||
| Scispace | ||||
| Paperpal | ||||
| Anara | ||||
| AnswerThis | ||||
| Undermind | ||||
| Paperguide | ||||
| Overleaf | ||||
| NotebookLM |
With ResXiv
- Reduce literature-review time from 40 hours → 12 hours
- Screen 3× faster with AI-prioritized rankings
- Maintain >90% recall of must-have research-specific information
Discover, filter, and organise information in your domain effortlessly.
Import past research, get proof-backed guidance, and plan your next steps with ease.
Read, take notes, resolve doubts, and collaborate in real time.
Export findings and save your progress for future research.
Early adoption trends
25+ global universities · 15+ top organisations
350+ signups
Organic signups
Beta launched 24 Oct 2025
- Testers from top universities including the CVPR 2026 Program Chair
- Interest from BITS Pilani, IIT Surat, Proximity.tech, and IIIT Hyderabad for design partnership
- Adoption interest from Lossfunk, one of the most innovative AI research groups
- Countries covered
- 12+
- AI startups
- 20+
- Research disciplines
- 10+
- Senior professionals
- 38%
Final Designs
Learnings & Impact
Context over generation
Researchers valued traceable understanding over polished summaries.
Advocate with research
Design decisions landed when tied directly to user study insights.
Ship with a small team
Being designer and engineer collapsed feedback loops—but prioritization was everything.
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